I have a large photo collection. some of my photos and in color and some are black and white, monochrome. How do I search to find a list of black and white photos?
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Mark S.
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Interesting question. There is no indicator on each photo as to whether it is black and white, or color. And even if there was, it would probably be wrong a lot of the time when you scan or take a photo of a photo, and the original is black and white, but the photo itself is color.
But I did find through experimenting that searching in the Photos app on a Mac for things like this gave me some good results:
grayscale
greyscale
b&w
black and white
The ability of Photos to recognize what was in the images was able to find photos that matched these descriptions. There are probably more to try. And it did give me some photos that were color, but had a lot of black and white in them. It even gave me some photos of me holding a black and white photo in my hand. My hand was in color, but the object was black and white.
What I would do is to do a search on one of these terms and then select the photos that match what you want. Then assign a keyword to them all at once. Maybe "B&W" or whatever you want. Then do the same thing for other search terms. Then just search for that tag for a combination view. You can easily remove some by clearing that keyword from those photos later.